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Formerly known as Astacus or Astakós in antiquity, Başiskele is a relatively new district, constituted in 2008. [4] [5] The municipality of Başiskele, which covers the whole area of the district, is a merger of the former independent municipalities of Kullar, Yeniköy, Bahçecik, Karşıyaka (before named Döngel) and Yuvacık. The name ...
A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...
MCDC has wide-ranging responsibilities, including city planning, land administration, tax collection, and urban development. [1] MCDC raises its own revenues through tax collection, fees, licenses and property development. [1] MCDC's chairman acts as Mayor of Mandalay, and sits as Regional Minister for the Government of Mandalay Region.
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation ...
The GOPP works on preparing national plans, regional plans, strategic masterplans for cities, as well as urban plans for towns and villages across the country. [6]It has produced a series of masterplans for Greater Cairo, including the infamous Cairo 2050/2052 plan, [7] [8] that faced immediate criticism for its top-down mandates delivered as megaprojects that promised to displace large ...
A block is a district sub-division for the purpose of rural development department and Panchayati Raj institutes. Cities have similar arrangements under the Urban Development department. Tehsils (also called talukas) are common across urban and rural areas for the administration of land and revenue department to keep track of land ownership and ...
The Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) [a] is a Swiss federal office. Its acronym, ARE, is used in all languages and derives from the office's German name. Created on June 1, 2000, [1] the office is responsible for spatial planning, transport coordination and sustainable development. It also manages issues relating to the Alpine ...
The American City: What Works and What Doesn't. New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-137367-5. (A standard text for many college and graduate courses in city planning in America) Dalley, Stephanie, 1989, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, Oxford World's Classics, London, pp. 39–136